Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] i_generation numbers. | Date | Tue, 21 Sep 1999 12:57:19 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Olaf Kirch wrote: > > You can't produce good random numbers fast, which is what fsirand > > would have to. > > I recall the Mersenne Twister is fast and thought to be very good.
To protect against NFS attacks you need to produce good and secure random numbers, which is even harder. What you should do of course is forget the whole NFS security through silly hacks game. MD5 is exportable and ANK wrote MD5 signed RPC code for userspace.
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